<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Theseus

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble fragment probably from the upper left corner of a panel or sarcophagus front ( 0.74 x 0.19 x depth not measurable)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the exposed face.

Letters

0.018-0.02

Date

?Second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition τοῦ πλάτα καταβαινόντων τὰ εν τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος σὺν ταῖς ἰσώσταις ἐστὶν Θησέως καὶ κληρονόμων αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν e.g. γενομένην αὐτῷ συνχώρησιν διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου
Apparatus

l. 1, ἐνδέξια Reinach

l. 2, ἐστὶν Reinach

l. 3, γενομένην, Reinach's conjecture, might be δοθεῖσαν

l. 4, αὐτῷ Reinach

Translation

Of the platform of ?those descending the half part, with the burial niches is [the property of . . . ] of Theseus and his heirs [ . . . .] to him permission through the property-archive

Commentary

No commentary

Locations

Unknown 'Havouz (bassin), place du marché' (Gaudin); Walls, East (south part), built into a wall by the entrance to the school (NYU) Findspot (1975)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebook; publication.

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (III, 59); by Gaudin (121); by the NYU expedition in 1975.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 271-272, no. 166, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 537 .

Photographs

Face (1975)
Face (1975)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 59